Triton XVI, Lot: 622. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GAUL, Northwest. Carnutes. ‘Pixtilos’. Circa 50-30 BC. Æ (16mm, 3.25 g, 6h). Head left, hair pulled back into crest-like form, torque around neck; three annulets above, PIXTILOS to left, treelike ornament to right / Lion standing left, roaring; two pellet-in-annulets above, PIXTILOS to lower left, saber-like ornament below. Scheers,
Pixtilos 20; D&T 2473; Depeyrot,
NC V, 91; CCCBM III 119. Superb EF, dark green patina, insignificant metal flaw on obverse.